A Letter from My 20-Year Old Self

Sleeping soundly in UP.

This was 5 years ago. It’s amazing what you discover in your old email inbox. Don’t worry, I don’t always write letters to myself. But I totally forgot what made me write this narcissistic note. Could’ve been an English subject requirement or just a random crazy rant. But now, reading through it just gave me a whole new perspective on how to answer the question, “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

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Dear Self,

Hello Coy! How are you? Or should I ask – How are we?

Kwarenta: My 8-Hour Ondoy Experience in 40 Txt Messages

My grueling experience yesterday is incomparable with what’s happening with our fellow Filipinos still waiting to be rescued right now. And I’m praying for my friends and family who are still stuck in their homes and on their roofs.

I know most of us lived through our worries yesterday by texting and calling our loved ones. What I have here is a very small part of the millions of text messages sent on September 26, 2009 that clogged even the biggest communication networks in the country. These messages don’t account the whole riot I (and my office mates) experienced. It’s actually just the tip of the iceberg.

Though my phone got soaking wet, fortunately it did not die on me. Here are the messages in my Sent Items texted to different contacts:

CokskiBlue’s Very First Single (err, Jingle)

Flippish Made Me Sing for the Philippine Blog Awards!

“Jingle” is a really fun song I wrote and composed in the wee nights of the morning. It basically symbolizes the diversity of the Philippine blogging community and the unity most of us are aiming for – hence this year’s PBA theme “One Blogging Nation”. The blogs or names in the song are there to

CokskiBlue’s Most Loyal Fans (Another Singing Video of Lulz)

This video shows that our family is always gonna be our most loyal fans. They can tolerate almost everything you do (even if you’re not good at it. hehe) . Another Singing Blogger-wannabe video featuring True Faith’s “Huwag Na Lang Kaya”.

CokskiBlue Got His Head Shot

Uhm. It’s not as morbid as it sounds. And we actually had a lot of fun! Here’s me being photographed by the famous Niccolo Cosme at last night’s Project Headshot Clinic at D Zone, Sherwood’s Place, Manila:

CokskiBlue Sings “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz LIVE

The first time you heard me sing was on my Season 1 vlog, “Sessions with Jet”. This time it will be a little different. I sang “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz live in front of a bunch people in a debut party I hosted last night. Singing to an audience is the best thing! It was not my best version but I sure enjoyed it (even if the crowd didn’t think so. )

I will definitely do this more often. Haha!